The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-11-08
DIXIE DOINGS.
Happenings of a Week in the
Sunny Southland.
CoLUMBIASs AGRICULTURAL FAIR.
GEORGIA..

| From the Albany. Ga, News
1T IS now about time to commence fatteninr
turkeys for Thanksgiving. The turkey crop il
| large thls year, and those who have the incest
| plumpest ones, win realize the best figures II
! IS SAID that in England. in former days, tame
turkeys were fed with wauuts to give them
the taste OF wild turkey. In Italy turkeys are
always fattcned on walnuts Thirty DAYS bo.
! fore turkey is TO be killed one walnut is
stuffed down his throat Each day he is given
! an additional walnut and on the @lth day he has
| twenty-nine walnuts. He is then immensely
| fat
| A train Of forty wagons loaded with cotton
from Lee county, Ala, reached this city al Z
O'Clock this afternoon. The owners ~ the
cotton are members of the Lee County Farm
ers alliance, and come here becansc they n.
gard TINS as the best place 10 sell their cotton
and buy their supplies.
Two Mormon missionaries asked ;e-,,,s ssson
to preach at Williams Creek church. in War
rem county, last week. but Of course were 70
fused. Inasmuch as they were moi allowed to
preach they scattered some tracts around dis
closing their articles OF faith Mormonisrn NAV
take IN Utah, but it don't suit the people 81
Georgia and Warren county,
From the Monticello Ga. News
Mr.. j. A. Kilgore, Of Eudora. brought rs
last Monday a sample Of beautiful syrnp OF his
own make from the early Orange variety. He
has on hand 800 gallons OF this excellent
syrup.
Henry II. Kelly, OF Loves district. s;iu
keeps IN his record as thorough progressive
and scientific farmer. On ten acres az land
near his house, he had on October 5th picked
out nine bales OF cotton and says that he is sure
OF three, and probability of four more. He
has also made a record in raising watermelons
that makes him boss in that line. He pulled
two out of his patch this summer that kicked
the beam NJ 1l3 pounds-one weighing SO
pounds and the other "a. He also has some as
INLAND as no ir IA
Mr.. c. Plonsky made a shipment of car
load OF hides from Albany last week
Mr.. John Noles, living on the limo of Lau-
rens and Dodge counties, lost his eldest son, a
boy about II years old, last week, through an
other gin accident. The boy was riding on the
lever arm, driving the mules attached to the
gin, sitting with his back to the animals when
he was caught by the cog-wheel and terribly
crushed before the mules could be stopped
To release the crushed and bleeding form of
the sufferer from the wheel, II was necessary
to drive the mules backward, and while doing
this, the boy expired.
Willis Mitchell, a son of Ike Mitchell, the
colored fisherman at Fountains mill, Pulaski
county, met an untmely death on Wednesday
of last week in the following manner: He
was filing baskets for his mother who was
feedinSthe gin, and in his idle moments had
grabbed a round hole in the cotton from the
top OF tho pile to the floor. While playing
around the hole he fell into 1t headforemost
covered. The boy was about eighteen years
old.
A sad and probably fatal accident occurred
last Friday evening at Bateman's Mill, Tay-
Tor county, in which it is feared that a little IA
| year old daughter of Mr.. II. IL. CleaVeland
will lose her life. During the rain on Friday
! several children had gone into the mill house
| Tor shelter, and while engaged Mt play one OF
! them became entangled in the shaftng, Of the
! mill. An older sister seeing the dangerous
Dpp sig tar INN, TO, hp,,
nets Bong unable to eXtricatc her sister and her
! clothing bong very wet she was also caught
by the whirl of the shaiting, and carried round
and round in such manner as to strike several
obstacles that were near by Her right thigh
was broken and her head and shoulders fear
fully cut aud bruised,
The Jackson Argus has a suggestion to make.
which is worth acting upon. 1t says that feathers
are becoming scarce and command fancy prices
As tho demand continues and the price advances it
would he profitable for cotton raisers t. start up
goose nrm. Such business could be run success.
fully and suggest for the benefit of anyone who may
be In search of Il lucrative business the practical
idea Of raising geese for their feathers,
The return OF Jefferson Davis to Macon leads
the Hawkinsville Dispatch to remark;
The timber resources of Irwin county ere
valuable and immense, The people value their
lands very low. Lots of lind of 100 acres covered
with heavy growth of original yellow pine may
calities the prices are less Nj r. " Clements, the
clerk OF the superior court owns ii 600 acres which
he has offered for $4,000 one Of the lots is No 81
containing 100 acres within two miles of Irwlnyic
1t was upon this lot, among the pines and near a
branch, that Jefferson Davis had eampcd for tho
Cd by the rcsImcnt OF Michigan cavalry in pursuit
OF him. The regiment divided, and when the camp
was discovered and surrounded about daylight each
paty took the other for confederate cavalry and a
! fight took place, Two or three of the Michigan
Sayaiay were Killed by their own comrades, 1t has
been suggested that part of this lot of land be pur
| chased and enclosed 10 commemorate the event
that Is bound to make ii historic as long us the
! southern Confectionery shall he remembered. Mr
| David NJ Hogan, living one mite below Irwinvie
says he Will furnish young sycamore trees to beautiy
| Ihe park
blllte Pournello goes for the turkeys. One
| day recently he discovered in q field adjoining
| cedar swamps signs of numerous tracks, and
! he At once determined to capture tho layout
| dead or alive. SO a day or two later he re-
| turned TO the rendezvous with a pockotfull of
| Sh0lled corn, and after scattering the grain
/ about over that portion of tho field where the
/ traces in the sands OF time" were the most
/ numerous, he returned homo. Next morning
/ opghtand early, Ae arose and went on duty at
/ the baited field He took position lust out
side the enclosure. with his gun at his side. to
/ wait and watch for the coming of tho early
| bird. While moSeyiug around the fence cor
| ners TO secure better view of things he heard
the familiar flap OF turkey as he mounted the
fence TO fly over. Pournello turned in the
I direction, and through the early mist espicd
lotf NufkVNS,Nitn hSAdS erect, lelSurolN view
ing the landscape DER" The huntsman drew
bead ON the unsuspecting flock and Let her
60, Gallaghort' NJ the report of the gun one
OF the turkeys was seen to run off n few stems
stop aud Straightcu himself when PourneNe
opened on him with the second barrel, bring
ing him down Eillio leapcd the fence and
Went e. find four dead turkoys-three that he
had killed az the first fire and one At the last
| shot.
Augusta Chronicle: Oscar Adams, n negro
| man, is having trouble with his wife. Last
month negro man, Alfred Lee, who used to
| love his wife before she was married, came to
his house, and, armed with an AK, which he
| threatened to use unless no submitted brought
Adams ont In the yard aud after tying him 10
| tree, 'thrpwed ON thirty-nine" and left him
tied TO the thee, while the wife and Lee made
/ for the city Here Oscar found them, and YES
terday offered police officer ten dollars if he
would kill dat niger" He says he is ailing
and cannot DO the Job himself lie spends his
! time between importuning the police TO arrest
I Lee and in watching the house. uo VOWS TO
/ baVe the law on the couple, and when
some one told him that they were making
I preparations 20 leave town, he rushed into
! police headquarters with the startling Informal
ton that "he is going to leave town.
HARRISON county comes TO the front with a